Is Rocky IV actually good?

Rocky IV sits in the 53.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 53.3% of them.

How does Rocky IV compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Rocky IV lands in the 50.6% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Rocky IV's score based on?

369 calibrated reviewers stand behind Rocky IV's score.

1985

global pct

53.3

Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s

Rocky IV

Name: Rocky IV
Genre: Drama, Sport
Released: 1985

Scored from 369 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

53.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

50.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

62.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

369 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After a towering Soviet boxer, Ivan Drago, enters the professional ranks and faces Rocky Balboa's close friend in a tragic exhibition bout, Rocky travels to the USSR to fight him on Christmas Day. Training in the harsh Russian winter, he carries the weight of personal loss and Cold War tensions into the ring in Moscow.

Rocky IV (1985) is a film IMDb files under the drama and sport genres.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. 369 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 383 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 118 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.